Severums

[glolite]

Hi guys

I took over a 75g tank which had 2 red spot sevs 1f 1m. the female got a fungus which I treated with pimafix, successfully but she then got a secondary infection and died.

I bought 3 gold sevs as babies to try and get a mate for the red spot who was juvenile at the time. The situation now is that the red spot has stopped growing, 1 'baby' gold sev has grown alarmingly quickly and the other 2 golds have grown to the size of the red spot. None are particularly aggressive towards each other but I need to return 2 to the lfs before I'm overstocked. The tank also has a breeding pair of sajica cichlids and 1 rainbow cichlid, a pair of BNs and some corys.

So any advise as to which sevs to keep? I'm leaning towards the red spot and one smaller gold, what do others think?

 

[minxfishy]

I think even with two you are overstocked, so IMO you should only be keeping one of them.

 

[glolite]

Thanx for the speedy reply minxy. I'm off to the lfs today so will return 3. Probably will keep the original red spot. x

 

[minxfishy]

That would be my choice, love my red spot.

Sorry about the answer btw, I know its probably not what you wanted to here, but unless you can upgrade to a 100g in the near future, it really is in the best interest of the fish to rehome them now as full grown Severums are rather large and chunky fish. But your fine with the rest of the stocking

 

[glolite]

Yes I know really but I felt sorry for the red spot male at the time with losing his mate and all that. Ahhh . I'm happy with the set up anyway, especially now the sajicas are breeding.
They managed to raise 20+ weebies in the end. !0 are in a 30g and 6 in a 13g. My lfs will take them when they're 1.5 inches, which won't be long as they are already an inch big.

Then I'll be rich! Ha ha